Panel: Improving Care and Experience Using Hospital Information Systems in the Community: Harmony or Chaos?

Andrew King

Andrew leads OntarioMD’s (OMD) development, architecture, integration and IT operations teams. He has overall responsibility for the development, maintenance and support of both internal and external products and services, including our award winning HRM® service. Andrew advances provincial EMR to EHR integration and maturity priorities through strong partnerships with digital health stakeholders and OMD’s nationally recognized OMD Certification Program. Andrew has over 30 years of IT service design and delivery experience. Over 20 years have been dedicated to provincial health care, driving EHR and EMR enabling technologies, solutions and service. Andrew is a passionate advocate for advancing clinical and practice outcomes through health care IT.

Philip Vandewalle, MD

Dr. Philip Vandewalle is a family physician and is currently Chief of Medicine at Middlesex Hospital Alliance – Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital Site. Previously, he was the Head of Perinatal and Pediatrics at the same hospital. He has a comprehensive practice, working at one of the local long-term care homes (where he is Medical Director), in the ER, on the in-patient floors (where he is head of the hospitalist program), in the obstetrics department and in his family practice office. Dr. Vandewalle also teaches at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, where he is a full-time Assistant Professor. Since graduating more than 25 years ago, he has had a keen interest in EMRs. He and his group of fellow doctors were one of the first groups in the area to adopt an EMR in 1995. Dr. Vandewalle has been a Peer Leader for OntarioMD since its early days and he continues to have a strong interest in advancing the use of the EMRs. He is always ready to embrace the latest functionality in EMRs. He is keenly interested in using the EMR as a tool to improve patient outcomes. Dr. Vandewalle has been part of the Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) initiative with his current EMR and sends data to the BORN Information System via his EMR.

Kim Morrison, MD

Kim Morrison has extensive experience within the healthcare sector. She is a family physician in Napanee and Fellow of the Canadian College of Family Physicians (FCFP), an Associate Professor at Queens University, Department of Family Medicine. as well as Chief of Staff at the Lennox and Addington County General Hospital.

Kim is presently the Executive Lead to the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA-OHT).

Her philosophy is that to care for people effectively as a primary care provider, both their mental and physical health needs must be acknowledged and addressed. “We cannot be “well” unless our basic needs are met, many of which are rooted in our emotional and psychological wellbeing”.

Vineet Nair, MD

Dr. Vineet Nair is a family physician and Lead Physician of the Core London Family Health Organization (FHO) in London, Ontario. Vineet has been involved in quality improvement initiatives ever since attending his first Institute of Health Care Improvement (IHI) conference in 2008. Dr. Nair has written and presented on Advanced Access Scheduling, EMR Usage, and Primary Care Reform – which continue to be areas of interest for him. Dr. Nair has had personal experience with multiple EMRs, and has transitioned from a paper-based practice to EMR (in BC), started a practice on an EMR since its inception, and transitioned from one EMR to another. Dr. Nair has been an OntarioMD Peer Leader since 2009.